Inspired by developments in artificial intelligence, space engineering and genetics, discussion of posthuman visions of the future is now widespread, especially in the tech world. This Perspectives...

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

Rishi Rajpopat, from India, decodes a rule taught by Panini, a master of the ancient language.

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

Ulrich Beck was a prophet of uncertainty—and the most important intellectual for the pandemic and its aftermath.

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This article explores John Stuart Mill’s career-long interest in federal models of politics. Demonstrating how Mill’s multi-faceted account was shaped by his understanding of civilization and of...

This chapter explores how intellectual historians have studied visions of international and global politics. I focus on some of the contrasting purposes that have been claimed for historical schola...

Contemporary scholars routinely argue colonialism and imperialism are indistinguishable. In this essay, I challenge this argument. While it is true the “colonia...

This chapter explores how intellectual historians have studied visions of international and global politics. I focus on some of the contrasting purposes that have been claimed for historical schola...

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Empire, Race and Global Justice

Abstract. Herbert George Wells was one of the leading public intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Most famous today as a founder of mo

J. G. Ballard was one of the most original writers of the postwar era. Although he has drawn considerable attention from scholars across various fields, the cha...

This is the Table of Contents for an edited volume, forthcoming in early 2019) with Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/empire-race-and-global-justice/D7E6E663231EC5499...

Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, is one of America’s most infamous domestic terrorists. His 1995 Manifesto, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future’, is well known and influential amon...

15th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Keynote speaker: Professor Duncan Bell Location: Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, UCL Date: Thursday 20t…

Why our need for utopian thinking old and new, from Thomas More to Kim Stanley Robinson, has never been greater.

A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empire

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State

J. G. Ballard was one of the most original writers of the postwar era. Although he has drawn considerable attention from scholars across various fields, the cha...

J. G. Ballard was one of the most original writers of the postwar era. Although he has drawn considerable attention from scholars across various fields, the character of his political thinking...

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

15th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought Keynote speaker: Professor Duncan Bell Location: Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, UCL Date: Thursday 20t…

This is the Table of Contents for my forthcoming book, Dreamworlds of Race (Princeton UP). It will be published in 2020. It focuses principally on exploring visions for the unification of Britain and...

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Empire, Race and Global Justice

Current understanding of Mill as a founding father of liberalism is a Cold War creation. Discarding this conception opens the way to a general reassessment of his thought: who was the historical Mi...

Centre of African Studies researchers will examine financial bequests and gifts

There are good reasons why so many prime ministers were from Eton – while none have come from comprehensives

Brad Evans speaks with Duncan Bell. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....

H. G. Wells was one of the most influential writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Most famous today as a founder of modern science fiction, he was once known throughout the world as a...

New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility in modern politics

Having cut Britain adrift of Europe, Brexiters are indulging in an old fantasy about a new national role in the world—as the hub of a far-flung Anglosphere

Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Vol. 34, No. 6, 2021)

Imaginaries of the far right.